held a campaign rally in the South Bronx on Thursday night. It would be hard to find another part of America less Republican than this once notorious New York borough, which is overwhelmingly black and Hispanic — and which voted 85 per cent for in 2020.The Bronx was also once synonymous with urban squalor, decay and lawlessness. Many years ago, when most New Yorkers regarded it as a no-go area, I rather foolishly managed to get lost there while driving out of the city with a friend en route to .We found ourselves in the midst of block after block of urban devastation that made the old Gorbals' tenement slums look somewhat plush. I spotted a police station, which seemed the safest place to seek directions.
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